[tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 10137
Date: 2001-10-11

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:

> Perhaps O:rion < *Ausriyon, throught a different IE dialect in
Greece.

Greek aurion ~ o:rion 'tomorrow' is derived from *h2aus-r-, but
Orion, i.e. <o:rio:n> has the variant <o:ario:n> (hence metrical
length in Homeric o:ri:o:n), suggesting a different derivation.

Piotr